The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-07-30
4 strong Democratic platform.

ton follows suit with a set of reso-
buttons which indicate that the party
in Ohio means business. These two
conventions, with that of Rhode Is
land in March, have struck the key
note for the campaign of 1888, and
have done it boldly.
The country has become weary of
the political patent nostrums of the
last few years, each one warranted
to cure all the evils that have been
complained Of They have no more
practical value than nestfull of
stone eggs when your object is to
hatch chickens. Nostrums in poll
tics are the bane of the age. The
nostrum peddler succeeds in advertis-
ing himself, which is his chief pur-
pose, and hopes to attract the atten-
ton of the public long enough to
enable him to slip into some lucra-
tive position. There is the prohibit
ton nostrum, to take single eX-
ample, which legally allows the rich
man to store costly wines in his Gel
lar and fill himself full whenever the
notion seizes him, but deprives the
poor man of his liquor and sends
him to prison if he leans against a
lamp post. 1t is humbug, because
it creates a privileged class by bear
ing unequally on rich and poor.
There is no sense, and there never
will be any, in decreeing that rich
man shall be more favored than a
poor man. But there are other nos
trums, many Of them republican and
few of them democratic, too numer-
Gus to mention. And one rule holds
good about them namely, that
the sole object is to beneAt the pat
entee. The interests of the people
cannot be conserved by these paltry
means, and it is we'll that the demo
cratic party has taken the matter in
hand and proposes to give us a
strong allopathic dose of the com
mon sense principles by which our
fathers governed the country with,
it must be admitted, a very consid-
cradle degree of success.
The Cleveland convention has not
minced matters. 1t calls a spade a
spade without any hesitation The
Kentucky democrats used good Eng
lish when they denounced the pres
ent war tariff as "a masterpiece of
injustice, inequality and false pre-
tence," and the democrats in Ohio
are not a whit behind in declaring
for a tariff which shall "result in
producing revenue sufficient only
to meet the expenses of an econom-
ical administration of the govern
ment and the payment of liberal
pensions to Union soldiers and sail
ors."
On the land question the latter
put themselves in an invincible po-
sition, demanding that call lands of
the government be held for actual
settlers who are citizens Of the Uni
ted States, and for those who declare
their intention to become such"
The republicans dare not meet the
implied accusation. In a contro-
versy on that subject they would be
routed, horse, foot and dragons.
Indeed, they are so sensitive to any
mention of it, with twenty years of
constant speculation behind them,
that they are CONTINUOUSLY and stolid-
ly silent whenever it is referred to.
In Mr.. Blaine's speeches, delivered
in different parts of the country; in
Senator Sherman eloquent orations.
pitched to one key in the South and
to another in the North, the subject
is so skilfully avoided that it's alb
sence is suggestively conspicuous.
No republican says Gland" except
in an undertone, and then he slips
away to some more congenial topic
with all possible speed.
The words of sympathy for strug-
Cling Ireland in the Cleveland plat
form are well timed and warm. The
party of the people in this country
never ignores the battle for larger
liberty which the oppressed people
of other nations are carrying on.
Ireland deserves the commendation
of the laboring classes in America
and has been materially assisted by
them in her efforts to secure home
rule.
The wage earners of the Republic,
too, are made to feel that their place
is in the democratic party. They
would be homesick anywhere else
The Cleveland platform is their plat
form. 1t means opposition to cor
porate monopoly, which would coin
the blood of the poor man into drach-
mas, and it means such wholesome
and stringent legislation as will give
to the laborer all the opportunities
which the spirit of our institutions
can place within his reach.
All three of these conventions
the Rhode Island, the Louisville and
the Cleveland-have heartily and
and generously Endorsed the Presi-
dent. This is rather an appalling
fact for the republicans to ruminate
upon, for they have fondly hoped to
be blown to Washington by cy-
clone in the democratic party. So
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